114 SALMON FISHING IN CANADA. 



a fishing-rod, and depending rather upon the slice of 

 fat pork which covers the hooks of their flies, for deluding 

 the trout, than upon their skill in angling or their taste in 

 imitating the winged Ephemera. 



I ask the question with regard to those who may be 

 really denominated "fishermen." Men who weigh anchor 

 in their yachts or chartered schooners for a month's or six 

 weeks' residence amongst the rivers, where 



" They hear no temple bell ; " 



where there are neither churches nor clergymen, but who, 

 nevertheless, are not forgetful of Him who " made the 

 heavens and the earth, and all that in them is," and who 

 " holds the waters in the hollow of His hand." 



I ask the question that I may answer it ; and few, I 

 believe, are more capable of affording an answer, for few 

 have more frequently visited the scenes of which I write, 

 and still fewer have been associated in their excursions 

 with a greater variety of characters. And I have no 

 hesitation in stating that I have very rarely witnessed the 

 manifestation of any disposition to desecrate the Lord's 

 day by making it a day of amusement ; and that whenever 

 such disposition has shown itself, it has been at once dis- 

 countenanced and overruled by the majority of the party. 

 On the contrary, I have almost invariably found every in- 

 dividual comprised in the expedition, including sailors, 

 servants, and Indians, not only inclined to make the 



